Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-26

It is not often that people in this vicinity feel obliged to complain because there is too much pleasant weather, but a week of rain now would be very heartily welcomed.
 Governor Hill of New York has vetoed a bill providing for registration of voters in all the cities of the State having 16,G00 in habitants or more on the curious ground that the bill assumes that the majority of voters are dishonest
 The break in the wall paper pool illustrates how such pools often get beaten. For a little while it kept prices up to high level. But it's very success only served to call into ex- istence d number of outside manufacturers, the competition of whom has now finally grown to the point of completely breaking the pool.
 The Methodist ministers of Philadelphia have appointed committee of five to con- slider the advisability of excluding reporters from their Monday morning meetings. There is no charge that the reporters have reported incorrectly, but it is said that sometimes they make public incidents that might as we'll be kept quiet. The Rev. J.H. R1ddick is against excluding newspaper mon. ''We ought not to do anything we are ashamed of," he said ''I say turn on the gas." Inspection for military service in France affords an opportunity of aseertaining the condition of young men in the various social grades, and the results are sufficiently marked to be significant. Thus in one thousand 1 men taken indiscriminately, representing rich and poor, educated and illiterate, $40 | were found physically fit for service. But | in an equal number of college bred young | men only 425 passed the test. Apparently l then, the collegians were eleven and half per cent. below the average.
 A remarkable statement of the cost of To- | comotive service on the Illinois Central rail road for each year of the past thirty years is | made in the annual report of the road. The | cost per mile has fallen from 26.52 cents in 1857 to 1898 cents in 1886. This reduction has been effected wholly by inventions and | improvements in machinery. But the figures show that the progress of invention has been l even more remarkable than these figures inn ply, because the wages of engineers and fire men have risen in the same period from 4. 51 | O. engineers and fremen received as wages F per cent. of the entire cost of locomotive ser vice. In 1886 they received 39 per cent. of | the total cost
 The order of tho Knights of Labor is showing the results of some of the work that has been done or attempted. The New York Sun has made an investigation and gives some significant facts. Taking ten of the largest local assemblies, which on the first of July, 1886, had a total membership of 104,- 469, it is found that on the first of April, 1887, their membership aggregated only 61 ; 793, or falling off of more than 40 per cent in nine months. The movement of de- cline seems, too, to be accelerating. Take, for example, the famous District 49. During the six months succeeding the first of last July it decreased by about O,000 members, while during the three months preceding April of this year it suffered loss of no less than 15.000.
 General Armstrong, principal of the Hamp- ton institute, thinks that the outlook for ed ucation in the South is encouraging. He finds that the relations between the whites and blacks have greatly improved and the education requisite to make good citizens oi the negroes is being pushed with remarkable , earnestness, especially in the cities. Th' former slave States are paying about 5000, ? 900 annually for negro education, and thu
 North is sending South about $1 ,000, 900 pc